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Cultural History Conferences

York 1190: Jews and Others in the wake of Massacre

Date: 
22 March 2010 - 24 March 2010

This conference will  use the events of 1189-90 as a lens through which to reassess society in England in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The York massacre was not just a local event but one of a series of violent attacks on local communities of Jews across England in 1189-90.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Sarah Rees Jones and Dr Sethina Watson
Location: 
York, UK

Modern Records:challenges and opportunities

Date: 
22 March 2010

The Conference will examine the challenges and opportunities posed by modern records of religion.

URL: 
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/rag2/activities/conference/
Conference organiser(s): 
Religious Archives Group
Location: 
St Pancras, Euston Road, London NW1

"Refugees' Journeys"

Date: 
24 March 2010
Hanna Diamond, author of 'Fleeing Hitler', on 'Photographic Narratives of Refugees in France. 1939-40' and Christophe Declercq on 'Horsemeat on your Table: the Peculiar Intricacies of Belgian Refugees in Britain during WWI'.
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Caroline Perret (Group for War and Culture Studies)
Location: 
University of Westminster - 309 Regent Street - London W1B 2UW.

Urban History Group Annual Conference - Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place

Date: 
25 March 2010 - 26 March 2010

This conference explores the relationships between practices of resistance and transgression and the exercise of authority in urban spaces.

URL: 
http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/uhg/index.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr David Green and Dr Shane Ewen
Location: 
Durham, UK

Neighbourly Denunciation

Date: 
26 March 2010

Neighbourly Denunciation 

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

2:00pm Session 1

URL: 
http://www.sas.ac.uk/710.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
Location: 
London, UK

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

This interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield aims to bring together the different scholarly ways of approaching the Victorian period and to examine their points of crossover and divergence.

URL: 
https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Conference organiser(s): 
Tim Baycroft, Ingrid Hanson, Erin Snyder, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr
Location: 
Sheffiled, United Kingdom

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

URL: 
https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Conference organiser(s): 
Ingrid Hanson, Erin Snyder, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr
Location: 
Sheffield

Religion and Modern British History Symposium

Date: 
27 March 2010

Following the success of similar day conferences in 2009, the Modern British History Network is planning an exciting new event for next year’s schedule.

URL: 
www.mbhn.org.uk
Conference organiser(s): 
Modern British History Network
Location: 
Edinburgh, UK

Charity Begins at Home: Approaches to the History of Domestic Space and Voluntary Action

Date: 
27 March 2010

Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to propose papers for this one day workshop. We welcome papers that discuss the speaker’s experience addressing  issues in their own research on charity and the home.Voluntarism in the domestic sphere presents particular methodological and evidential challenges. The aim of the event is to encourage an open and

Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Soanes, Voluntary Action History Society Postgraduate Sub-Committee
Location: 
Coventry, UK

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

URL: 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/basas2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Clare Anderson, David Arnold, Hazel Rice
Location: 
Coventry, UK